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“Allowed” is an interesting way to describe being the target of hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising and heavy promotion on several of the most popular websites in the world.

>>acdha+(OP)
Yes. 'Allowed'. After Mozilla claiming they can live without Google's money and knowing that they could not 14 years later. [0] Then getting itself sabotaged by Google for years [1] to be overtaken as the browser with the largest market share.

With Firefox's declining usage and market share, they are essentially on life support with Google's money since they know they would be completely irrelevant without it.

It appears that [0] has not aged well at all.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...